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"419" Scam – Advance Fee / Fake Lottery Scam

The so-called "419" scam is a type of fraud dominated by criminals from Nigeria and other countries in Africa. Victims of the scam are promised a large amount of money, such as a lottery prize, inheritance, money sitting in some bank account, etc.

Victims never receive this non-existent fortune but are tricked into sending their money to the criminals, who remain anonymous. They hide their real identity and location by using fake names and fake postal addresses as well as communicating via anonymous free email accounts and mobile phones.

Keep in mind that scammers DO NOT use their real names when defrauding people.
The criminals either abuse names of real people or companies or invent names or addresses.
Any real people or companies mentioned below have NO CONNECTION to the scammers!

Read more about such scams here or in our 419 FAQ. Use the Scam-O-Matic to verify suspect emails.

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Some comments by the Scam-O-Matic about the following email:

Fraud email example:

From: "DR JOSEPH OKWU" <bobzy@josephscott.com>
Reply-To: drjosephokwunna00@gmail.com
Date: Tue, 29 Jan 2019 07:46:33 -0200
Subject: After a serious thought

Hello,

After a serious thought, i decided to reach you directly and personally
because i do not have anything against you, but your Nigerian partners. I
am a Director in charge of Wire Transfer/Telex Section at the central bank
of Nigeria, Sometime in the past your Nigerian partners approached me
through a friend of mine who works with one of the ministries here and
requested that i assist them conclude a money transfer deal, they told me
to help program the transfer to you.

According to them, they wanted to use this strategy to transfer a huge
Amount of United States dollars fifteen million dollars($15M), the money
has been floating in the CBN suspense account since then. we agreed that
once i do this, they would give me $USD100,000.00 and give me another
$USD100,000.00 when i release the fund to your account. When they saw that
i have programmed it and your name has been approved among the list of
those to be paid, instead of giving me the agreed deposit of
us$100,000.00, they started avoiding me and resorted to threats. I
immediately deleted the transfer code of the fund, which is only known to
me because of my position, and released other contractors’ fund and
inheritance payments without yours. They became angry. When they saw that
their threat did not work, they started bribing other officials to get
another approval to transfer the money to you without success. i want you
to know that i am 100% responsible for the delay and obstructions because
of their breach of trust.

If you doubt what i have just told you, then consider what has transpired
through out your claim process, they continue to ask you to pay money
after money and at the end no result and they still tell you to pay
another fee without any result yet, they are simply wicked. Now if you
want us to work together, these are my conditions.

1. I will have 20% of the money because it is only the two of us left for
now.


2. You will assist my son to open an account in your country where i will
pay in my own share.


3. It will be useless and mere waste of time and money if you continue
with any other person, so we will conclude this transaction with utmost
secrecy.

4. You will provide me with your private telephone, mobile and a private
email to facilitate easy communication between you and I only. If these
conditions are acceptable to you, contact me as soon as possible to let us
finalize, so that the funds can be released to your account after due
protocols has been observed. But if you are not interested, i advice you
to forget the fund and stop wasting your time with your so called partners
in paying endless fees.


Best Regards,

Mr. Joseph N.Okwu.
Director, Wire Transfer/Telex Dept.
Central Bank Of Nigeria
Tel +2347030510843





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